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were very ruddy; and those found in the mulga-trees (a 

 locality they were often found in) were a slaty-black, in har- 

 mony with the bark to which they were clinging.] 



Tympa?>ocryptis Uneata, Peters. — [The habits of this 

 species seem identical with T . cephaJus ; so much so that they 

 may easily be taken for the same species.] 



T ympanocryptis cephalus, Giinth. — [Fairly numerous, 

 mostly in the sandy country. We did find some amongst the 

 gibbers on the tablelands.] 



Diporophora winneckei, Lucas and Frost. — [We took two 

 of these small lizards from under stones near Crown Point, 

 and they were met with near Hermannsburg.] 



Physignathus longirostris, Boulgr, — [We collected a good 

 many specimens of this handsome lizard. Their great length 

 of tail gives them grace of movement. The body, being marked 

 with rich plum-colour or deep purple with a large spot of 

 white and a deep line of red in conjunction with the tapering 

 body, makes them very conspicuous. Most times we found them 

 in trees, where they jumped from bough to bough and circled 

 the trunks with great rapidity, and in nearly every case a 

 gun was required to bring them down.] 



Moloch horridus, Gray. — [Native name, "Entakobma." 

 Met with in the sandy country. During the first part of the 

 expedition, the nights being sometimes very cold, these strange 

 reptiles would be found in a numbed condition before the sun 

 became very hot; but from observations made they seem a 

 very slowly-moving lizard at any time. It is wonderful the 

 hundreds of ants they will devour in a very short time. Seems 

 to be distributed over the whole of the central regions. One 

 very fine specimen was procured at Crown Point.] 



Yaranus giganteus, Gray. — [Not plentiful; their tracks 

 (at times as large as a man's hand) were sometimes seen in 

 the sand, always near a pile of rocks or near some rugged 

 hills where they live in large holes running far into the rocks. 

 We secured one fair-sized specimen. One wounded Varamis, 

 which unfortunately got away into a hole in the rock, was 

 over 8 ft. in length. The natives call this large lizard "Sjonba," 

 and are very much afraid of it, which was the means of losing 

 the large one, for they would not take part in its capture. 

 The largest tracks seen were in the Lindsay Creek. Found 

 all through the interior wherever rocks and broken country 

 are found.] 



Varanus goiildii, Gray. — [This very brightly-coloured 

 lizard was met with in many localities spreading over most of 

 our journeys. They generally dwell in holes in the ground, 

 and were never seen in the rough rocky localities, the habitat 

 of V. giganteus.'] 



